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they came into camp in high good humour, singing and 

 blowing antelope horns ; and in the evening, after the 

 posho had been distributed, cooked, and eaten, the 

 different groups would gather each around its camp- 

 fire, and the men would chant in unison while the 

 flutes wailed and the buzzing harps twanged. Of covu-se, 

 individuals were all the time meeting with accidents or 

 falling sick, especially when they had the chance to 

 gorge themselves on game that we had killed ; and then 

 Cuninohame or Tarlton— than whom two stancher and 

 pleasanter friends, keener hunters, or better safari 

 managers, are not to be found in all Africa — would 

 have to add the functions of a doctor to an already 

 multifarious round of duties. Some of the men had to 

 be watched lest they should malinger ; others were 

 always complaining of trifles ; others never complained 

 at all. Gosho, our excellent headman, came in the last 

 category. On this ITasin Gishu trip we noticed him 

 limping one evening, and inquiry developed the fact 

 that the previous night, while in his tent, he had been 

 bitten by a small poisonous snake. The leg was much 

 swollen, and looked angry and inflamed ; but Gosho 

 never so much as mentioned the incident until we 

 questioned him, and in a few days was as well as ever. 

 Heller's chief feeling, by the way, when informed what 

 had happened, was one of indignation, because the 

 offending snake, after paying the death penalty, had 

 been thrown away, instead of being given to him as a 

 specimen. 



The roans were calving in early November, whereas, 

 when we went thirty miles on, at an elevation a 

 thousand feet less, we at first saw no very young fawns 

 accompanying the hartebeests, and no very young foals 

 with the zebras. These hartebeests, which are named 



